Pentax A40 Changing the Image Folder Name

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Format
Sound
Date Adjust
World Time
Language/	English
Folder Name	Standard
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Changing the Image Folder Name

You can select the folder name style from [Standard] or [Date]. When you select [Date], pictures and sound files are saved in separate folders of the shooting/recording date.

Folder Name

Standard	xxxPENTX (xxx is 3-digit folder number.)
Date	xxx_mmdd (3-digit folder number_month day)

Example:

When [Standard] selected			When you change to [Date]					When you take pictures next time
(Shooting date: January 26) (Shooting date: January 26)								(Shooting date: January 30)
DCIM				DCIM					DCIM
		100				100					100
					100PENTX					100PENTX
	100PENTX
			101				101
			101_0126
							101_0126
							102
							102_0130

1 Select [Folder Name] on the [H Set-up] menu. 2 Press the four-way controller (5).

The pull-down menu appears.

3 Use the four-way controller (23) to select [Standard] or [Date]. 4 Press the OK button.

•If you set [Date Style] to [dd/mm/yy], the folder name appears as “xxx_ddmm” (3-digit folder number_day month).

•The capacity of an image folder is 500 files maximum. When the number of files reaches 500, a new folder will be automatically created.

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